One of the coolest homes ever!

[ctlikon0712]

This is an interesting article, the man lives legally in the long abandoned Packard plant!

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/meet-all...uto-plant.html

[J Franklin]

He said he takes out the trash but I doubt it.

['29wagon]

what a dump.
my cousin once rented out the old fruit of the loom factory in shi-ka go. Il. as a residence.
his friends still make fun of him.

[dumb person]

That was cool.

[ctlikon0712]

I thought so, it would be like a swap meet/flea market every day. Imagine all the stuff and automemorbillia that's just laying around!

[Chris in WNC]

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Originally Posted by J Franklin

He said he takes out the trash but I doubt it.

agree. some folks have a higher tolerance for rubbish & clutter than the rest of us.
I'd enjoy having all that space, but would burn up a lot of my time just trying to keep it more tidy.

good thing that ol' boy has dogs to keep the rats at bay. gotta disagree with his assessment that Detroit will bounce back. don't want to stir up the political-speech police in this post but the forces that turned the city to crap are still running things there.......

[MrTube]

How is that a cool home? He lives in a dump.

[eagle]

I spent some time a couple years ago in Buffalo NY. It is the same kind of blight that you see in the video. It is an amazing thing to see. Why do they let this sort of thing happen? The amount of scrap steel in most of those buildings would make them worth tearing down. It seems to me there must not be any enterprising spirit left in those people. With a backhoe to dig a big hole for the rubble, and a grapple for tearing out the steel, and a front end loader to push it in to the hole, one person could clean up one of those buildings in easily less than a year. Maybe the politics is what makes it impossible? I suppose the amount of regulations for hazardous material and so on is what makes it undoable??? I suppose the unions and all of the safety regulation hoops you would have to jump through make it too tough. Buffalo has miles and miles of areas just like the video, or even worse. Many buildings, all that is left is the steel skeleton. Lots of dollars worth of scrap iron... The Niagara Falls area is the same way. There are some brand new, never used buildings that are falling down into rubble! Here in the farm country our version of this same thing is all of the old dairy barns that people just let fall down. I see it as very disrespectful of what our ancestors worked for. If your not going to keep a building, or for that matter your old Model A, repaired and respectable, then you should tear them down. If you don't its like letting the body of your old uncle lay on top and rot. When someone or something is dead, the respectable thing is to bury it!

[ctlikon0712]

Ok, I have to admit, I wasn't ble to watch the video, I just read the article. My internet is verrry slow. And I would have to "clean it up too". Still a neat read!

[dumb person]

Would be a shame to tear it down. If only they could find people to use the buildings they would have motive to fix them up... but every single country in the world is moving production to china...

[real550A]

I like how he says he makes sure there's no broken windows or roof leaks!